Relinquishing Our Leaves. Feel. Move. Express

My first sacred dance inspired event went really well. 😁 it was a different kinda preparation to the ceremonies I normally hold in that setting up the space was quick (no alter etc) but preping the play lists was a Labour of love.

The event was called ‘Relinquishing Our Leaves. Feel. Move. Express’ I have decided not to use the word ‘dance’ as I feel it may alienate folks who would benefit.

Workshop was 2 hours

- house keeping, agreements and check in

- warm up

- shaking it off

- embodying different qualities in movement

-support dance

- journaling ‘I let go…’

- personal expression of journaling

- closing circle

Each motifs was punctuated with walking and towards the end standing infront of one other.

I wrote a reflective piece based on the feed back I received in circle and 1:1 conversations. I won’t share all of it but bits that might be useful to our collective are below:

- 1 student shared she felt nauseous (due to emotional landscape moving)

- 1 student stated they felt something like shame due to their ‘defensiveness’

I found theses shares really useful to know I will mention this both as possibilities for experiences in the ‘opening & intro’.

Sep 25th, 2023